Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

The two brothers left the small medical hospital, turned right along the path, and walked towards the main road.

Xia Lunong was carried by his brother, and saw many people along the way.

The clothes these people are wearing are all darker in tone, and there are more or less stains on the cuffs at the bottom of the hem. Further up, almost everyone has a tanned face.

They greeted each other with different accents. It was quite strange to mix southern accents, southwestern accents, northern accents and other accents.

Xia Lunong whispered in his brother's ear: "Brother, you are very popular."

Xia Huo channel: "There are so many people in the base, most of them are familiar with each other, and they will say hello when they see each other."

Xia Lunong looked at the base located under the mountain.

Their base is in a mountainside depression in the southwest of Huaguo, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is only one exit in front to go down the mountain.

The buildings of the base are basically distributed on both sides of the main road, and the outside of the buildings is farmland.

It is obviously a small mountain village, and there should really not be many people.

Xia Lunong was curious, "How many people are there?"

Xia Huo's channel: "When I read the information last month, it was 320 nine. Now I don't know how many."

Xia Lunong wanted to ask again, but Xia Huoqu raised his chin, "We're almost there, our house is under that big tree."

Xia Lunong hurriedly looked up.

I saw a small hillside a few hundred meters ahead, and on the hillside was a huge tree with such a thick trunk that it would take at least three or four grown men to hug it.

The tree grows in an open space, behind which there are two small one-story buildings next to each other, most of which are covered by the tree.

After getting closer, Xia Lunong realized that their house was more beautiful than the general buildings in the base.

The general buildings are mostly red brick houses, or even earth brick houses.

Tiles were also laid on the outside of their building.

Xia Lunong stared at the house at home, and it didn't feel like it was built later.

Xia Huoqu sensed what he was thinking, and said: "This was originally a natural village. When the team came, the houses basically collapsed, and there were no living people in the whole village. After we cleaned it out, we have been living here. Our family is also the same. It was rebuilt on the basis of the original building.”

Xia Lunong put her face on his shoulder and asked, "Brother, was it very difficult for you to find this place?"

"Fortunately, the team led by Yan Xiannian, he turned into a prehistoric tiger with strong fighting power, and not many people died during our visit. Do you still remember your old brother?"

Xia Lunong nodded.

Yan Xiannian is his elder brother, so he wants to call him elder brother.

This person has been a child of someone else's family since he was a child.

Xia Lunong's eyes sparkled, "Brother, have you got in touch with Brother Yan?"

"We got in touch when the catastrophe just happened, and later we fled here together. It is thanks to him that we were able to bring you here safely."

Xia Lunong turned her head and looked at another house next to her own house, "Brother lived next door, right?"

"Yeah." Xia Huoqu put him down, took out the key and opened the door, "At that time, I specially chose two houses next to each other, so I could have someone to take care of me."

Xia Lunong didn't have much strength in his legs yet, so he stood up while leaning on the wall.

There is an open space in front of the house, and there are huge green trees on the edge of the open space.

The predecessor of their house should be a building, and the position of the load-bearing column can be seen.

The house was too badly damaged by the earthquake, and the upper half should have been repaired later. There were only red bricks, no walls, and no tile decoration.

Xia Lunong's eyes fell on the exposed red bricks in the upper half, the house patched up like this is like a sewing monster, very weird.

Xia Huoqu opened the door and led him in, "Come in first. It's almost time, you rest at home, I'll go to the cafeteria to get lunch."

Xia Lunong immediately said: "Brother, I will go with you."

"Let's talk about it after you recover." Xia Huo channeled, "There are too many people in the cafeteria. If you want to go out, I will take you up the mountain for a stroll in the afternoon."

Xia Lunong had no choice but to say, "Okay. Let's go shopping in the afternoon."

"You go around at home to see what you want to add, and we will find a way to go to the market to change."

Xia Lunong stayed at home for a while, and Xia Huoqu came back with lunch.

The lunch in the canteen of the base is still the same, rice porridge, sweet potatoes, boiled Chinese cabbage and a small portion of hot and sour pickled radish.

When Xia Lunong saw it, his stomach began to swell with conditioned acid, and he quietly took a deep breath to conceal his real reaction.

Xia Huoqu handed him the chopsticks, "Let's just make do with it. In a few days, I'll go out to collect and see if I can get some meat."

"No need." Xia Lunong smiled at his brother, "I can eat what other people can eat."

Xia Lunong broke off a piece of sweet potato.

This sweet potato with white skin and white heart is not the same type as the red skin and red heart.

It has a lot of fiber, high starch content, and very little sugar. It is very bland and not very useful. It will make your stomach bulge after eating, but it will be digested in a while.

Seeing his frowning appearance, Xia Huoqu felt a little sore in his heart, and said to him, "After eating and resting, I will take you out in the afternoon."

In fact, it was already [-]:[-] in the afternoon when Xia Lunong went out, the sun was setting in the west, and it seemed that there was still more than an hour before they went out.

Before going out, Xia Lunong's brother specially wrapped him in a thin down jacket, "It's cold at night, don't freeze."

"Not to this point." Xia Lunong retorted, but obediently stretched out her hand, asking his brother to put on this black light down jacket for him.

The clothes are a bit big, and wearing them on him makes him look like a child even more.

Xia Huoqu showed some relief in his eyes, rubbed his head, knelt down and carried him on his back, "Go."

Xia Lunong was not too happy to let his brother carry it on his back, "I can walk for a while by myself."

"I'll let you go halfway up the mountain."

Xia Huoqu went out with his back on his back, locked the door with a big lock, and then walked slowly up the mountain along the mountain path.

They walked on a relatively high terrain, halfway up the mountain, and could see many people working in the fields of the base, including men, women, the elderly, and even children.

Most of the places where old people and children work are terraced fields on the mountain, and most of the private fields allocated to individuals by the base are in these places.

Xia Lunong looked up to the mountain. Above the terraced fields and below the top of the mountain were rolling bamboo forests, and on the top of the mountain was a high, rolling wall.

On the three sides of the base, a wall of more than three meters high and two meters wide was built with bricks and stones. Small houses were built every ten meters on the wall, which were sentry posts.

The wall almost formed a closed loop around the base, and there was no exit except for the main road in front.

The appearance of the wall is very similar to the Great Wall. The people at the base also call the wall the Great Wall and are very proud of it.

The outside of the Great Wall is full of dangers, but this side of the Great Wall is considered safe. After the Great Wall is built and the sentry posts are set up, the people at the base can breathe a sigh of relief. They no longer have to worry about being accidentally snatched away by some wild beast after falling asleep at night.

Xia Lunong knew this information when he listened to the patients chatting in the small courtyard. He had not experienced the early stage of the end of the world, and listening to these news was like listening to a story.

Looking back now, more than 3000 people were able to establish such a base after the disaster, which is truly a remarkable feat.

The brothers went all the way.

After half an hour, they stood halfway up the mountain.

There are terraced fields on the mountain, and the road halfway up the mountain is fairly wide. The two brothers stood side by side, overlooking the scene below the mountain.

It was almost evening at this time, and there were many houses at the foot of the mountain smoked from the roofs, and there was a unique smell of firewood in the air.

If you don't look at the continuous city wall on the top of the mountain, Xia Lunong can't imagine that this is already the scene after the catastrophe.

Xia Lunong turned her neck and looked around. The scenery in the base is pretty good, especially the green trees, with deep roots and lush leaves. A tree is like a giant umbrella.

When her gaze turned to the giant tree outside a certain mud-brick house, Xia Lunong saw an old man carrying a ladder, leaning the ladder against the giant tree, pushing it hard, and slowly climbing up.

When he climbed to the first branch, the old man threw the rope in his hand onto the branch, tied a knot, and then tugged at the rope in his hand to see if it was secure.

Xia Lunong looked at the old man curiously, thinking that he was going to dry or hang something, but what he didn't expect was that the old man put his head into the noose, kicked his feet on the ladder, and jumped down .

The matter happened in an instant. The old man put his head on the rope and jumped off in a coherent movement. He moved calmly and quickly, without even a slight pause.

"Ah—" Xia Lunong took a step back in fright.

When the old man was dangling from the tree, he suddenly came back to his senses as if struck by lightning. While staring at the old man, he stretched his hand back, shaking his arm to grab his brother, "Brother—— Brother! Over there!!!"

On the tree in the distance, the body of the hanging old man was still dangling.

Xia Lunong stared at the scene, her legs and feet were weak.

He didn't even expect to see such a scene when he went up the mountain for the first time.

"Don't look." The big warm palm stuck out from behind, his brother covered his eyes, pressed against his back, and repeated, "Don't look."

After Xia Huoqu finished speaking in his ear, he whistled for a long time.

Someone was yelling towards them from a distance, but Xia Lunong couldn't tell it at all, she just heard his brother pointing in the direction, "Over there, Old Man Ye's house—"

After a while, Xia Huoqu gently removed the hand that was blocking his eyes, but the hand was still on his shoulder to support his body.

Xia Lunong hurriedly opened her eyes wide and looked ahead, where the old man hanged herself just now, a large group of people had already gathered within a few breaths.

The old man was also let down from the tree.

Xia Huoqu didn't expect to encounter such a thing when he took his brother up the mountain for a walk on the first day.

He patted his younger brother on the shoulder lightly, sighed and said, "Let's go back."

Xia Lunong nodded, didn't ask anything, silently leaned on his brother's back, and asked his brother to carry him back.

After returning, he didn't ask any more questions, but the news that Old Man Ye had hanged himself still reached their ears.

Old man Ye was gone, the people at the base mourned for him, Xia Lunong didn't go, his brother went to help, and his expression was still calm when he came back.

The brothers didn't talk much about it, and it passed without a hitch.

Xia Lunong felt a little more worried, this era seemed to be more cruel than he imagined.